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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-04-25, Page 61964 Page 4 Titnes7A0Yo.cate,.. April 25 FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh CLUBS WIN TOURNEY TROPHIES Pee wees cop Goderich 'C title Hail the champs This line led pee wees to trophy win at Goderich This first-string line of Bill Fairbairn, Captain Barry Baynhane and Jim Hayter scored seven goals in the last two games Saturday when Exeter pee wees won the 'C' trophy at Gpderich's Young Canada tournament. Jim Hayter, Dashwood, who was brought In as a replacement for John Loader when the latter broke his leg before the tourney, accounted for five of the markers. Squirts win international novice 'C' championship One of two Exeter teams who won tournament championships over the weekend, Exeter squirts pose happily with their trophy following their sudden-death win Saturday. Front row, from left: Chris Riddell, Jim Guenther, Johnny Hayter, Larry Haugh and Allan MacLean; middle, Dennis Thompson, Stephen Riddell, Peter Glover; back, Manager Lyall Riddell, Randy Becker, Don Kirk, Brad Klurripp, John Guenther, Joe O'Rourke and Coach Lorne Haugh. -- Henry photo. buy a beautiful 01'00 Diamond Insured free for one year Pleasing you pleases us. 12111113100[E12 DEFENCEMAN HOWARD . . . standout for champs GOALTENDER BRINTNELL . posted three shutouts Champs come from behind to win honors at Brampton The local squirts, shown here defending their end against a Thornhill attack, rallied in the third period to come out with the 'D' trophy at Brampton Saturday. Jim Gienther was the star of the game, scoring three quick goals to give the locals a 3-2 win., Above goalie Johnny Hayter receives help from defenceman Allan MacLean against two Thornhill players. Two Exeter players skating up to the play are Joe O'Rourke and John Guenther. -- Henry photo came roaring back with a solid five goal performance in the third to post an 8-0 romp over Ridgetown. Rick Brintnell in the Exeter nets, posting his third shut- out in four starts, was only called on to make three stops in the entire contest. At the other end of the rink things were a little different as the Exeter kids poured 31 shots at the Ridgetown twine custodian. A diversified attack that has been instrumental in the team's success throughout the year -please turn to page 5 Squirts come from behind SUPERVISORS WANTED EXETER KINSMEN PLAYGROUND Thirteen has-heel:411e a lucky nernher for the Exeter gee Wee Weisel/ club, This number represents thp yearly jaunts that local teams of 12 and under .goys have mode to the annual Young Canada Pee wee tournament during Easter week in •Goderich. This year's elub, with five other championships already to its credit, racked up six straight victories to bring the elusive "C" silverware to Exeter for the first time. As was expected by most ob- servers, the most trouble ex- perienced by the new champions came from a couple of teams that have caused grief to local minor clubs in the past. Woodbridge, encountered on the very first day of the tourney, went down battling by the nar- rowest of margins 1-0. After disppsing of Morahan- WiTnhoena r2e-s1, t Elorahan- dily 13-0, the locals turned back a stubborn crew from of the way to the title was fairly smooth with Ridgetown and Harriston bowing in order by 8-0 and 4-1 counts. In Saturday afternoon's final, an underdog Seaforth squad put up a gpod battle with their scrappy type of play but were outskated most of the way and outscored 6-2. The Exeter boys under the tutelage of "Red" Loader and Gord Baynham worked hard in the entire series and were full value for their wins and the long sought after "C" laurels, EDGE WINONA 2-1 Wednesday morning's con- test turned out to be the hardest fought battle since the opener with Woodbridge, Early in the first several excellent scoring chances were missed by the Exeter kids. Frank de Vries broke through to bounce one off a post and a subsequent dangerous rush was nullified by an offside. Near the end of the frame, Rick Brintnell came up with a couple of dazzling stops to keep his door step clean. On the first turn on the ice in the middle frame, Jim Hayter carried over the Winona line to hit Barry Baynham with a rink- wide pass. The youngster cut in from the left side to blast alow shot into the short side of the cage to open the counting. Goal number two, which pro- ved to be the winner, came past the ten minute mark of the third. Frank de Vries, cruising in front of the Winona net, was in the right place to flip in Graham Hern's relay from the right corner of the rink. Bob Donovan, left on the loose in front of the Exeter net, tapped in Bev Robinson's re- bound with the second hand of the clock making its last cycle to put the Niagara district boys on the score board. Steady forechecking by the local pee wees in the centre ice area in the dying seconds kept the puck away from their end and pre served a2-1 margin. STRONG THIRD PERIOD In Wednesday's second start Loader's lads got off to a three- goal spurt early in the game, slowed down in between and Playground and Swimming (All Applicants Must Be 16 Year's and Over) STATE: (1) Age; (2) Qualifications: (a) Leadership training, (b) Swim training, (c) Experience teaching (d) Awards earned. (3) Reasons for applying; (4) Any Comments You Wish to make. SEND ALL APPLICATIONS TO D.J. 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Taking two periods and a half to get untracked, the squirts rallied with Jim Guenther firing threequick goals to down Thornhill 3-2 in the final and bring back the silverware for the second time in three years. All the sets up to the finals were of the two-game total- goal variety with the champion- ship matchbeing a sudden-death affair. Paisley was the first opposi- tion to fall to the strong skat- ing Exeter six by i de nt i c al scores on opening day. In the second round Wednesday, Win- ona fell by the wayside '7-1 and 5-1. As the tourney progressed, competition stiffened with Woodbridge putting up a stern battle, dropping 3-2 and 3-1 decisions to the locals in the semi-final. Trenton the "B" class win- ners, downed the "D" champs from Exeter 8-I in the grand championship series. OUST WINONA Giving up a goal to Winona star Hugh Prentice early in the first, the local squirts fell be- hind for the first time in the tourney, Wednesday. Larry Haugh came back quickly in less than a minute with his first of four to square matters on a long pass from Jim Guenther. Three markers in the second frame upped the Exeter lead to 4-1, The Guenther boys, Jim and Johnny, and Haugh picked up the tallies with defence stalwart Allan MacLean providing the assists on two. Another three-goal spurt in the final period gave the lodals a comfortable 1-1 lead to take into the evening contest. Chris Riddell romped le at the six minute mark to score on a solo effort after picking up a loose puck at centre. Cap- tain Larry Haugh wound up the scoring with a pair, the first oil a singlehanded effort as he broke thtongh the defence and the latter as' Jim Guenther fotmd his team-mate loose in front of the cage. TAKE SERIES 12..2 In the Wind-up game with Winona, Jim Guenther rounded Off a three-way passing Pattern with lihe-mates John Guenther and Laity Hatigh Were one minute had elapsed. Jack Whitfield knotted the count at the halfway mark on neat bit of stick handling In what proved to be his team's only score, The balance Of the period and nearly all Of the held, was score., less. both goalies fettled SWay all attacks. stick of Jim Jones late in the third to wind the game up at 3-1 and the round 6-3 for Exe- ter. CLOSE CHECKING FINAL The big game in the "D" series turned out to be close, hard checking from the opening face-off. The Thornhill youngsters were sent out with orders to bottle up the Exeter kids and this method was successful for most of the game. Joe Demarco and Randy Bagg scored for the Toronto area minor hockeyists to put the lo- cals on the short end of a 2-0 score after two periods of ac- tion. With less than eight minutes left on the clock and champion-' ship hopes beginning to wane, the entire team came to life. Jim Guenther fired the hat- trick in three minutes and 24 seconds to bring jubilation to the team's supporters. The goal that broke the goo se- egg was One of the best of the tourney. Haugh started the play in his own end, passed ahead to Riddell who hit Guenther in the clear at the blue-line. The big winger went flying in to pick the short corner and start the scor- ing spurt at 7.52. Less than three minutes later the equalizer came on a long shot that bounced in front and slid under the diVing goalie. Riddell's long clearing pass connected with Guenther at cen- tre and he sped down the right side to fire the winner at 13.59 of the last fifteen minute period. The winning shot was a low drive from a sharp angle on the right corner as Guenther was being crowded by a Thornhill defender. TRENTON TOPS Meeting the "B" winners from Trenton in the grand championship Series, the "D" winning Exeter entry held their own for one period. The overall strength of the Eastern Ontario team sholved up in the balance of the game as their star George Ferguson took over to score five times. The Trenton club Went on to take the big title with a 04 ton* over Peterberetigh, "A" win/lets. Larry Haugh notched the firat and only Exeter score early in the loss to Trenton. Key faators in the squirts "D" Win, besides the goal sco-, rare; were the fine defensive playg turned in by rearguard Allah MacLean Anti -goalie John- ny Ilayter. Larry 1-laugh 13 8 21 JIM Guenther 12 6 18 Aqui Guenthet 3 8 it dhria Riddell 4 7 1.1. Ailan MacLean: 0 6 6 10110 Reeker 3 1 4 Brad kluilipp 1 0 Peter GleiVer 2 0 2 Dennis Thee-10bn 0 2 2 Jae blitouivice 0 1 1 Don Kirk 0 1 1 Exeter. District Co-op The finest year in Exeter's minor hockey history came to a triumphant .dose this past week with three local teams putting up terrific per- formances, Two more championships were won Sat- urday to bring the grand total for the year to ten and wind up a hectic hockey week. After 13 years of trying for the "C" trophy of the Young. Canada Pee Wee event at Goderich. Exeter finally captured the award in the 14th an- nual competition. The local pee wees, well handled by Jim "Red" Loader and Gord Baynham, won six times during the eight-day tourney to add more titles to their year's collection. Already winners in tournaments at Leam- ington, Watford and Lucan, this long-sought after achievement brings to six the number of cham- pionships captured by this team, including the WOAA and Shamrock crowns. As was expected, the biggest obstacle in the pee wee march to the Goderich laurels was overcome in the very first game of the tourney when an old-time enemy from Woodbridge bowed 1-0 in a stubborn battle, The rest of the path was fairly smooth with only a slight scare coming in the 2-1 win over Winona. Rick Brintnell, handling the net minding chores for the champs, racked up three shut-outs as his mates outscored the opposition 34-4 on the week's play, About nine of the present pee wee champs were members of the 1961 Squirt club that won the international novice event at Brampton. ANOTHER TEAM COMING Prospects for future pee wee clubs look good since this year's Squirt edition reclaimed the "D" title in the Peel County town on Satur- day, turning in a "Frank Merriwell" finish with three goals in the last seven minutes of play to edge Thornhill 3-2, The kids breezed through the preliminary rounds with fairly easy wins over Paisley awl Winona by 16-2 and 12-2 wins respectively in two- game sets. Competition in the semi-finals tighten- ed considerably when another club from Wood- bridge put up a strong fight before bowing 6-3 on total goals. This ten-and-under team guided by Lorne Haugh and Lyall Riddell was lightly regarded at the beginning of the season, but with plenty of hard work in practices and the addition of some more Dashwood youngsters were playing well at the finish. In the latest accomplishment they out- scored their opponents 37-9 in copping seven straight contests and, with an earlier season tourn- ament win in Mount Forest, claim two titles for the year. An outbreak of measles that sidelined the Dashwood boys for several weeks deprived the locals of the WOAA crown. Playing the finals short-handed they lost to Walkerton by a single goal in a two-game series. THE BATTLING MIDGETS Lastly, but by no means the least in check- ing off trophy winnings come a battling crew of Midgets. The first representatives of Exeter in an Ontario hockey final displayed in the last games of the season a little extra of the never-give-up spirit that has featured their play all year. The many fans who witnessed the final games on Exeter ice will testify to their game- ness and courage in coming from behind on nu- merous occasions. In our mind the best tribute that could be paid to them was the standing ovation by the fans at the end of the Monday contest and in the closing minutes of their driving finish the fol- lowing night. Only a few unlucky bounces and goal posts in the way deprived the proteges of Don "Boom" Gravett and Lloyd Cushman from cap- turing their third championship win. Two titles, WOAA and Shamrock, were won by the midget club bringing the town total to ten. As a result of receiving a finalist trophy from the OMHA, the silverware count rises to eleven. A nice comment was heard from the Huntsville management in regard to the billeting arrangement that was used here and in the north- ern town. The spokesman said this was the first time this set-up had been tried and they were very happy both with the conduct of the local boys away from home and the hospitality that was of- fered by Exeter residents in opening their homes to the visiting hockeyists. ANOTHER WORTHY TEAM In congratulating the winners, let's not for- get another band of young pilasters that deserve a lot of credit. We are speaking of Derry Boyle's bantam outfit. This is one of the lesser pUblicized , hockey teams in the town that also reached a WOAA final, losing to Walkerton by a small margin. Incidentally the Bruce County club went right to the Ontario finals, losing to another Huntsville squad, which proves the locals were close to being right in the thick of things. Derry was the ,coach of the first Bxeter Pee Wees to invade the Goderich tourney in 1951, Things were a little different in that series 12 years ago as Goderieh swamped the local kids 14.0, The residentS of the town and district Should be justly proud of not only the champion- Ship clubs but of the entire minor set-up and the Many, Many people that are to necessary in op- erating h successful program, On behalf of the fans We would like to thank everyone involved in making the winter months SO enjoyable, -please turn to page 5 Brad Klumpp broke the' spell of the net minders with 50 seconds remaining in the second with what proved to be the win- ner, tipping in a pass from Dennis Thompson. Again a trio of goals in period three put the game safely out of reach 5-1 and gave the victo- rious Exeterites a 12-2 margin on the two-game series and a berth in the semi-finals. Jim Guenther with his second of the afternoon and singles from Randy Becker and Larry Haugh accounted for the final three. This marked the fourth straight contest that the oppon- ents were able to get only one puck past Johnny Hayter in the Exeter nets. WOODBRIDGE STUBBORN A smooth-skating sextet from Woodbridge gave the local s quite a scare in the Friday morning contest when they jum- ped into an early 2-0 lead. Chuck Fraser fired the mar- kers before the Exeter kids could get started. In nearly all of the morning games, the champs were slow getting started, but were able to get away to faster starts later in the day. Chris Riddell put his club back into contention at 4.30 of the second, slamming the rub- ber home on a low drive from the left side as he broke into the clear. Dennis Thompson's intercep- tion of a Woodbridge clearing pass set up the first score. Hard-shooting Jim Guenther took over in the final frame, coming up with the tying and winning shots, the latter coming with 15 seconds left in the game. The equalizer was notched at 5.50, cousin John and Larry Haugh assisting. The tie-breaker was a high drive from 20 feet out that ticked the inside Of the post on its way in. Chris Riddell and again John Guenther were in, etrurnental in setting up the score that gave the local aggre- gation a one goal margin to take to the second half of the double- header. BETTER AFTER MEAL Showing they play better hoc- key after dinher, the locale sco- red in each of the first two frames of the second genie at identical times, the .55 second mark. Jim Guehther was in the right spbt to bang hi a rebound after Jon O'Reurkete lotig point shot had been blocked for the firet scores A three WaY passing effOrt that started behind the Exeter net was responsible for the quick "second period tally. Larry lialigh Starting the play at his own Mid was on the finighing end converting the passes that Were provided on the Wayuptho ice by the dtleitther hot, The lone r eply from the Woodbridge kids Caine from the'